It never takes me <br />More than a wink of an eye <br />To travel from the Levant people <br />To the people of Minoa <br />Via yellow river, Norte Chico <br />Egypt, Harappa and Mesopotamia <br /> <br />I’d seen enough falls and rises <br />Like the ocean’s weaves <br />Embedded with few moment’s high tides <br />And receding low ebbs <br /> <br />While living in houses of Uruk and Memphis <br />I encountered with enough love and hate <br />To satisfy their basic instincts <br />Some went too low, some were too great <br />To preserve human development and progress. <br /> <br />In the course of my travelling <br />Through the great river Nile <br />Among the valleys of Euphrates and Tigris <br />I’d seen wonderful minds <br />In heaps of war, conspiracy, deception and lies <br /> <br />With multiple injuries <br />When I laid in the trenches of lust and greed <br />In the battle fields of Polynesia <br />I’d seen the indomitable human spirit <br />How it withheld the cruelties of Athenians and Spartans <br />And pushed forward the great human civilization <br /> <br />………………to be continued ……..<br /><br />Abdul Wahab<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-journey-through-civilizations/
